Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Golden Slipper, sentence 66
And they began to ask each other, "Dost _thou_ know her?
Who acts: people, thou · What happens: begin, ask, do, know · To what, where: each, Lady · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Golden Slipper. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (people, thou), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 began | cc |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 began | nsubj |
| 3 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 ask | mark |
| 5 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 began | xcomp |
| 6 | each | each | DET | ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp | 5 ask | obj |
| 7 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 each | fixed |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 Dost | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 Dost | punct |
| 10 | Dost | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 began | parataxis |
| 11 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 14 know | punct |
| 12 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 14 know | nsubj |
| 13 | _ | _ | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 know | aux |
| 14 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 Dost | conj |
| 15 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 know | obj |
| 16 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 began | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | begin | past | people | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | to-infinitive | people not said here | each | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent each=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | do in a quote | present | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | know in a quote | thou | Lady | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», Project Gutenberg book 29672 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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